Barlow Frenzy @ Fillmore 4-8 Webcast

I have Fillmore tickets - but there is zero leakage - very slim info on just exactly what will go down.

The only info I have is Shapiro paid for renting the Fillmore and for the presence of a brass band.

I’m going to both events 

hope it stops dumping rain 

very slim info on just exactly what will go down.<<

Coffin-cart races.

Wind & Percussion Ensemble (Trumpets & Tambourines only).

Bob's gonna' sing to the stiff again?

I heard its Bob Weir, Wally Ingram Jeff chementi and two others

Seeing Peter Rowan tonight.

Think I'll hit the thingy in the Park on Sunday.

Should be interesting.

weir kimock jerry harrison sean lennon robin sylvester paul ill alex koford  simon harper

barlow band

Jerry Joseph as well.

Would love to attend the Barlow Frenzy tonight if anyone has an extra ticket.

Free stream of the show tonight, think it starts around 5pm PDT  

relix stream;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mXjE7ij8os

nugs stream;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OVGWJ9E5U0&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for the post, it'll be stating at 1 am here, ouch hope some "grabs ' this! QUINN.?

anyone ' watching ' ? / WAITING?

Yes, it seems like a heartfelt, solemn and dignified slide show, but I have to wonder if there's some kind of delay because they're run through the photos a few times already...plus I don't hear any kind of audio, crowd noise, anything...

On deck

Waiting......

Thanks for the good morning dew this morning dj

Darn, wish I could hear what's going on. If it's going on.

Doors opened at 5:20, according to chat.  They aren't close to starting, sez an innie.

so it looks like you guys don't have sound either.

Thanks Hooper. It was fun!

Here we are!

Soul Rebels from New Orleans get it started, funky! (horny?) 

Posted by Kimock on FB

The brass band was good (aside from that "make some noise" nonsense). I liked their groove when they were playing horns and not singing or talking. After that, a white woman recited some boring verbose new age prayer, sang excerpts from a haftorah and burned some kind of sage-like witches brew. Bet there was long lines at the bars and bathrooms during that.

I really enjoyed mountains girl's thoughts, wonderful story!  

Must be quite the Memorial Barlow Frenzy there in person.

Wonder if they had Live Music at the Golden Gate Park event ?

Have a Blast,  BayAreans.

Ed Snowden giving tribute, wow, didn't see that coming!  

 I heard a tape years ago...yes, a book on tape, Masters of Deception, first hackers @ AT&T, where I learned about Electronic Frontier Foundation that Barlow began.  Guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I sure didn't expect that either.

We are extremely fortunate to see/hear this. I love it.  Alden Bevington, JPB's squire, is a great person to follow Snowden. MG's story was indeed a good one.

I'm very moved and happy to hear people who think.

"stop following me"  (LOL, luv it luv it luv it!)

From "Magic Pez" on the stream;

John Perry Barlow's Graduation From Meatspace

The Fillmore San Francisco, CA April 8, 2018

Wavy Gravy Intro

THE SOUL REBELS BRASS BAND ??? > Rebel Rock > I Can't Go For That > Rebel On That Level

Wavy Gravy Intro

Prayer By Unnamed Woman

Thoughts By Mountain Girl

Makin' Merry With Barlow (Short Story Read By Ramblin' Jack Elliott On Video)

Wavy Gravy Intro

JERRY JOSEPH, WALLY INGRAM & STEVE KIMOCK I'm In Love With Hyrum Black

Wavy Gravy Intro

JERRY HARRISON & FRIENDS Thoughts By Jerry Harrison, Heaven, I Need A Miracle Every Day, Take Me To The River,

Thoughts By Edward Snowden On Video

Wavy Gravy Intro

Thoughts By Alden Bevington

Wavy Gravy Intro

Thoughts By Kathelin Gray

John Barlow & The Bar Cross Ranch: A Film By John Byrne Cooke

Thoughts By Steve Cromer

Thoughts By Wavy Gravy & Intro

SEAN LENNON & CHARLOTTE KEMP Thoughts By Sean, The World Was Made For Men

Amelia's stories are melting my heart, no words...  

Or was that Anna?  

Barlow's graduation from Meatspace
The Fillmore 4/8/18
San Francisco, CA

9:21pm
Introduction
Wavy Gravy

The Soul Rebels

9:40
Prayer by sitting woman

Story from Carolyn Garcia

Video from Ramblin' Jack Elliot reading a story

10:11
Jerry Joseph, Wally Ingram, Steve Kimock 

I'm in Love with Hiram Black

10:20
Jerry Harrison and Friends, including
Bob Weir, Sean Ono Lennon, Steve Kimock, Robin Sylvester, Wally Ingram, Soul Rebels

Heaven
I Need A Miracle
Take me to the River

10:40pm
Video from Eric Snowden

10:50 Speakers
Alden Bevington
Kathelin Gray

11:06 
A film by John Byrne Cooke
Narrated by JPB

11:11
Steve Cromer

11:15 
Story time with Wavy Gravy

Sean Ono Lennon & Charlotte Kemp
The World was Made for Men

Barlows daughter sings a song

Thoughts Barlow daughter

Tribal Baroque plays Heaven Sent

Thoughts Barlow's daughter

Barlow daughters all sing

I Will Take You Home 
with
Sean Ono Lennon on piano

12:04 am

Just cut back from the Mets game.

Izzat Lukas Nelson on Bucket?

Yes, it’s Lukas Nelson singing.

I am so fucking moved by my experiences tonight with Barlow’s friends and family 

 my heart is particularly open these days and they are all climbing in and filling it

11:15 
Story time with Wavy Gravy

Sean Ono Lennon & Charlotte Kemp
The World was Made for Men

Barlows daughter sings a song

Thoughts Leah Barlow daughter

Tribal Baroque plays Heaven Sent

Thoughts Barlow's daughter

Barlow daughters all sing

I Will Take You Home 
with
Sean Ono Lennon on piano

12:04 am

Video

Wavy Gravy intros

12:12 am
Lukas Nelson with Bob Weir, Sean Ono Lennon, Robin Sylvester, Wally Ingram, Alex Koford, Jerry Harrison

Hell in a Bucket
Estimated Prophet

I'm there with ya Judit  ((hugs))

Well this is cool.

Thought you might be, Noodler. ((( hugs )))

This is good garage jamming! 

"Love forgives Everything"

John Perry Barlow 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncinl09HHUg

Barlow's graduation from Meatspace
The Fillmore 4/8/18
San Francisco, CA

9:21pm
Introduction
Wavy Gravy

The Soul Rebels

9:40
Prayer by sitting woman

Story from Carolyn Garcia

Video from Ramblin' Jack Elliot reading a story

10:11
Jerry Joseph, Wally Ingram, Steve Kimock 

I'm in Love with Hiram Black

10:20
Jerry Harrison and Friends, including
Bob Weir, Sean Ono Lennon, Steve Kimock, Robin Sylvester, Wally Ingram, Soul Rebels

Heaven
I Need A Miracle
Take me to the River

10:40pm
Video from Eric Snowden

10:50 Speakers
Alden Bevington
Kathelin Gray

11:06 
A film by John Byrne Cooke
Narrated by JPB

11:11
Steve Cromer

11:15 
Story time with Wavy Gravy

Sean Ono Lennon & Charlotte Kemp
The World was Made for Men

Barlows daughter sings a song

Thoughts Leah Barlow daughter

Tribal Baroque plays Heaven Sent

Thoughts Barlow's daughter

Barlow daughters all sing

I Will Take You Home 
with
Sean Ono Lennon on piano

12:04 am

Video

Wavy Gravy intros

12:12 am
Lukas Nelson with Bob Weir, Sean Ono Lennon, Robin Sylvester, Wally Ingram, Alex Koford, Harper Simon, 

Hell in a Bucket
Estimated Prophet
Feel Like a Stranger
Cassidy

1:00am

Love Forgives Everything video 

A powerful evening on many levels. I'm glad I made the effort to get there.

We come, we go.

On it goes.

I dug what I saw, The Soul Rebels, Jerry Harrison, but sorry I missed the balance. Is it up on Youtube yet?

moonalice on FB has vid

This is very cool, thanks for sharing the details.  Hopefully videos will be shared.

Cool Thanks

Hope it stays up

Ill watch it later while I paint

There were some fun jams, some expected self-indulgent presentations and some trainwrecks too.

But in the end - the love for and spirit of Barlow was richly celebrated!

I had fun but there were not very many stellar, cutting edge, holy shit musical moments due to the clusterpluck aspect of things with often, 5 guitarists on stage.   Kimock could barely be heard...

Lucas Nelson took on most of the Weir/Barlow vocals - while standing next to Weir - which seemed odd and Weir while appearing generally happy, didn't look all that hale and hardy (IMHO).

Sean Lennon was impressive with some really fine lead breaks and some great fingerpicking too.

Jerry Harrison was underwhelming but interesting.

Wally, Alex, Robyn and whomever the other bassist was were all solid.

The Barlow sisters were sweet, beautiful and earnest.  And they actually could sing.

I loved the dude who was trying to avoid the spotlight - and claimed to be Barlow's "Squire."  
Especially when he suggested that A) like his idol, he was striving (as a goal) to ad lib in public while on LSD and that B) even nearing his own demise, Barlow continued to consume copious amounts of the same.....

The Brass Band that opened was fantastic not just for being the tightest thing on stage, but for entertaining the crowd on Geary Blvd as IDs were checked at Will Call...   The gigantic trombone player was especially awesome!

The Steve Goodman Moment w Kimock, and several other episodes of this event, IMHO were self indulgent in that they were perhaps 5 to 10 minutes too long.... but what can ya do?

The flown in  - vid moment of Ramblin' Jack reciting a beautiful and funny elegy was fantastic and moving.

The flown in - vid moment of Edward Snowden was hampered by out of sync audio and buffering - but the ultimate point about Barlow being the "Ultimate American," was worth the long wait for the wind up.

Lucas Nelson took on most of the Weir/Barlow vocals - while standing next to Weir - which seemed odd and Weir while appearing generally happy, didn't look all that hale and hardy (IMHO).<<<<

Weir has just lost one of his oldest and closest friends, and his wordsmith.  I'm sure it's hard on him.  Same as when he lost Garcia.  There's less and less of his childhood friends still around.  Matt Kelly's known him since they grew up in Atherton.  It's always tough losing your friends.

Like Jerry's public memorial, it seems a little ragged, but fitting that there was a communal celebration of the life of JPB.   

Agreed Dave....

As well - I am sure Weir was affected by the recent loss of Churucki....

It was obvious to me that there was something wrong with Bob's voice, which was the only real musical disappointment for me. I wasn't expecting much musically, as these type of deals are always sloppy, but I thought most of the music was solid and the final few were really good and would have been excellent if Weir could have sung them instead of Fake Willie (who did fine, but as always when someone else is singing Weir songs it reminds me how good Weir has always been).

It looked to me that Bob was OK overall and enjoying himself but maybe had Laryngitis or something like that, as he squeaked some background vocals on the songs he would normally sing lead and just barely got though lead vocals on Cassidy. He's been in great voice lately, but when you're 70 years old shit's gonna' happen sometimes.

It was still fun & powerful to see that old dog up on the Fillmore stage. At one point while Bob was on stage and I was hanging in the back corner of the room I glanced behind me and saw a very old photo of the Grateful Dead/Warlocks on the wall...

As I thought about how that young boy was playing music in the Fillmore Auditorium 50+ years ago, the sense of time hit me as I looked back & forth from the photo of the boy to the old man on stage,  the same person still playing music in that same room. I'm a sucker for that type of thing, especially at that type of event.

Even without Bob singing I did like the final group, and it was fun to be in that room without it being packed as it usually is. It was odd to see such an eclectic group of people up there together, with John Lennon's son, Paul Simon's son & Willie Nelson's son next to old-timers like Kimock, Harrison and of course Bob, but that was just one reflection of the deep and varied connection to so many different people that Barlow had.

(BTW, what's the deal with Sean Lennon's accent? Didn't he grow up in New York City? His, odd, slightly English accent; "Barlow knew me mum before me dad did" sounded  a bit strange to me.)

A really long event like that with so much eulogizing and rambling speeches would have gotten real dull real fast for me for just about anyone else, but Barlow was just so damn interesting and dynamic a person all the stories were fascinating, as was the video of him working his ranch. The guy was a full-time rancher for 17 years, and still had time to connect to so many people and lead such a full life.

And what a life that guy had, what a character he was, and I thought all the speakers, including the always fun to hear Carolyn Adams, brought Barlow's broad brilliance to light.

He deserved a sendoff like that, and I was happy to be there.

I haven't seen Jerry Harrison in 35 years.  He looks like the child of Robert Plant and Tim Carbone.

Thanks for your powerful posts Treblemaker and Heathentom.  RIP JPB

Here's a link to the memorial stream from the Sweetwater tonight, from their Facebook page;

https://www.facebook.com/SweetH20MusicHall/videos/2010392049025948/?noti...

Bobby just told the Sweetwater crowd "Hey, Shut The Fuck Up"!

twice  (told the bar to shut the fuck up earlier)

Blocked on the work machine, but in via the clients' portal.

Miracle not quite as rough as it was last night.

thanks for the recap(s) above

Went to second memorial show at Sweetwater 

Bobby was in fine form 

telling stories, belting out songs and telling everyone 

hey! Back there!

shut the fuck up!

excellent 

hell, he owns the joint 

he took out a can of Skoal, while telling stories and but a dip in his mouth 

I shit you not. 

Those were very special gatherings

Life well lived, JPB!!!!

The alter up in poster room at Fillmore yesterday 

Love his cat!

Loved when she said Barlow calling her at 3am was fun, but tested her marriage :)

Hey, Ro.  Were you on the rail Sunday night?  If so, yew wuz on tha teevee!

Lol, I was :)

I didn’t realize that was Paul Simon’s son 

(((Charucki)))

Thanks for the pictures Ro!

Thanks for the reviews & photographs as well ^

I was happy to read about this show's positive energy that night.

Here is the show in its entirety, produced by Relix -

A Memorial for John Perry Barlow’s Graduation :: The Fillmore :: 4/8/18 : Full Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mXjE7ij8os

Love these shots, Roshambo! 

Thanks for posting.

As I thought about how that young boy was playing music in the Fillmore Auditorium 50+ years ago, the sense of time hit me as I looked back & forth from the photo of the boy to the old man on stage,  the same person still playing music in that same room. I'm a sucker for that type of thing, especially at that type of event.<<<<<

I had to wipe a bit of a tear after reading that.  Beautiful sentiment.  You are a refined heathen.

I didn’t realize that was Paul Simon’s son<<<

Didn't realize Bobby is "expecting"!

Yeah, Paunchy Bobby is a new one.  He was always the fitness freak of the group.   Must be slowing down.

Such great shared love for Barlow. (And Charucki)

Ro, thanks for the photos and more. I wasn't able to get the feed last night, hope to find it again. The night at the Fillmore was so special, I've heard that about last night, too.

>>Yeah, Paunchy Bobby is a new one.  He was always the fitness freak of the group.   Must be slowing down.

push-up regiment perhaps?

nice snaps, Ro.  thanks for sharing.

The final set of music from Sweetwater sounded better than the finale from The Fillmore the previous night.  Weir had more of his familiar Ratdog band mates and less clusterfuck on stage. I was able to hear more from Kimock!

I sure like Lucas Nelson. His guitar playing has soared in the past few years since he and his band started playing with Neil Young. I like his voice and stage presence. He brings vibrant, exciting, bad ass rock-n-roll energy, with a down to earth reverence for roots, like the fabulous Ronnie Van Zant. Yea, he reminded me of Ronnie a little bit these past 2 nights. That never happens. Nobody ever reminds me of Ronnie Van Zant, definitely not his brothers. The Nelson kid is good!

Barlow's daughter shared a parting quote from her father that I think is very profound and inspiring. She said he told her "Be radically yourself all the time. That's freedom"! Words to live by. I love it!